Archives: August 2010

This is a reminder for those who might be considering submitting a session but haven't yet. The call for speakers for SQL Saturday #48 - Columbia will be ending in 2 days, on September 2, 2010. We're hoping to publish the schedule by Monday, September 6, 2010, to give all… Read more

The only scheduled event among the sources I have listed is the one for SQL Lunch, so it looks to be a light week. If you know of any more that I've missed, please email me at kbriankelley {at} acm {dot} org. If I do get some entries in, I'll… Read more

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation at SQL Saturday #51 - Nashville. I apologize for going long and not getting to everything. Hopefully the content I provided was worth it for each of you. As promised:

Yup, you guessed it, another post about the nominations for the PASS Board of Directors. If you're tired of reading such, I wanted to give fair warning. Here are some thoughts I have after thinking about things and talking with a few folks.

I'm mostly working now supporting the building of SSIS packages for ETL. And on one particular project we've been making heavy use of snapshots to facilitate easy rollbacks when we detect an error in the way we've handled the process. Well, restoring a database snapshot requires kicking everyone out of the database.… Read more

Can SQL Server be offered as a service (SQLaaS)? Can SQL Server be treated like a utility that can provide application teams with the ability to easily procure an instance of SQL Server quickly? Yes and this session will talk about why it is… Read more